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That's a lot of cash money. I'm still a bit confused at how much of this money will go to the actual engine and how much of it will go to supporting W4 in general, such as allowing devs to publish Godot games for consoles.

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[–] sirdorius@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That is not really something that can be done on Godot's part. The best bet right now is to support open platforms like the Steam Deck over walled gardens like Nintendo Switch and show that there is consumer interest.

[–] FaeDrifter@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah but then how do you attract game developers to your engine?

It becomes a chicken and egg problem: consoles won't support the engine unless there's a demand for the games, developers won't make the games unless there is support for consoles.

[–] tabular@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Baby steps. One dev here, one user there.

[–] FaeDrifter@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But what if we would rather have an engine that's good?

[–] tabular@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good for what? I'd argue software freedom aught to be your priority.

[–] FaeDrifter@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So why even bother with a game engine? Write your rending from scratch and it's as free as you want.

[–] tabular@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Godot Engine creator explaining why everyone wins when the ecosystem is open - Godot as an Open Ecosystem – Juan Linietsky (GDC 2023).